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"Nearly a year after two Santa Cruz police officers were murdered, a fund set up for their families has collected more than a half million dollars but hasn't distributed a penny.More than $556,000 was collected after Sgt. Loran \"Butch\" Baker and detective Elizabeth Butler were violently killed in the line of duty in February 2013.Donations from the community flooded the Santa Cruz Police Department and City Hall and two different scholarship funds were set up - one at a credit union and another at a bank.\u00A0The city finance department combined the funds into one and turned it over to the Santa Cruz Police Officers' Association union to handle.\u00A0The Santa Cruz Police Officers' Association wants to split the money 50-50 between the two families.Union president and police officer Joe Hernandez told KSBW on Monday that distributing the money was delayed by Ashley Baker, Butch Baker's 25-year-old daughter. Ashley Baker threatened the union with a lawsuit if it did not give her more money,\u00A0Hernandez said.Ashley Baker told the union that she deserved one-fifth of the half million because the memorial fund was initially promoted as a scholarship fund for the two officers' children.\u00A0Butch Baker has three children who are now all adults, and Butler had two sons who are 3 and 6 years old.Butler's longtime domestic partner, Peter Wu, said he did not receive her death benefits -- which are separate from the memorial fund -- because the couple was not married.Wu is the father of Butler's two sons. Wu returned to work as a bus driver in November and is raising their two young boys.VIDEO: Peter Wu talks about\u00A0Elizabeth Butler\"Peter has really become the victim in all of this and that is really bothersome,\"\u00A0Hernandez said. \"Ashley is really delaying getting funds to them.\"Money from the memorial fund cannot be distributed unless all family members sign an agreement for the 50-50 plan.\u00A0The union set a deadline of Feb. 21 for families to respond to the agreement.\u00A0Hernandez said Ashley Baker had agreed to the 50-50 plan previously, but changed her mind and hired a lawyer.Baker and Butler\u00A0are remembered as Santa Cruz's heroes.On Feb. 26, 2013, the detectives went to Jeremy Goulet's home on Branciforte Drive to question him about a sexual assault when they were ambushed and shot to death, the sheriff said.Goulet, a former U.S. Army soldier, was wearing body armor and was armed with three guns when he tried to escape his neighborhood on foot. A team of deputies and SCPD officers unleashed a barrage of bullets and killed Goulet on Doyle Street during a shootout.VIDEO: Remembering Santa Cruz's heroesPHOTOS:\u00A0Det. Loran \"Butch\" Baker and Det. Elizabeth Butler"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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